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The Film Society of Lincoln Center jump-started the 56th annual New York Film Festival this fall by playing The Favourite for its Opening Night Attraction--playing it twice, in fact, as [...]

The first question to ask Danish director Michael Noer is: 'What's the first question interviewers ask you about your Papillon remake?' The answer, he says, is 'Why?' They're right to [...]

In his five features to date, lames Gray I has rarely ventured far--if at all--from A the five boroughs of his native New York City. 'I'm genetically engineered to be [...]

Seriously, folks, a Farrelly brother has finally made a drama--one of substantial social import, too. Three years shy of Social Security--after a successful quarter-century of top-grossing gross-out comedies conceived and [...]

Two Tony winners--The Humans playwright Stephen Karam and Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer--have teamed up for a sort of Human Awakening--the first film flight of The Seagull in 50 years. [...]

Between Glorias--his breakout Chilean film of 2013 and his forthcoming American remake of 2018--44-year-old writer-director Sebastian Lelio has struck a mother lode of cinematic gold and glory with the two [...]

Writer-director Mike Mills is living proof that filmmakers should never leave home. Two out of his three features are portraits of his parents, individually rather than collectively, and he stewed [...]

It just had to be a jest of God that the weekend Neil Armstrong made his 'giant leap for mankind' and carried John F. Kennedy's legacy all the way to [...]

At precisely the time when we need one, critics have started calling John Hawkes 'the new Harry Dean Stanton.' Wrinkled, rumpled, vaguely wasted, he perpetually wears a look of the [...]

Remember serves as both the title and the operative word for the new Atom Egoyan thriller from A24 in which a newly widowed nonagenarian, Christopher Plummer, conducts a cross-country vendetta [...]

In the annals of epic Oscar blunders, it is generally conceded that the perfect storm formed around 1956's Best Motion Picture Story. The winner was not Jean-Paul Sartre (for The [...]

Somewhere, midway through the opening-night unfurling of Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying on Sept. 28 at the 55th New York Film Festival, the feeling may have started to sneak up [...]

Yes, of course, Lone Scherfig has seen Dayfor Night, Franjois Truffaut's throbbing heart of a valentine to the moviemaking art. Truth is, she can even quote Valentina Corteses famous line [...]

When A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies' delicately nuanced and moving biography of reclusive poetess Emily Dickinson, was presented at 2016's New York Film Festival, the British writer-director himself took to [...]

Director Pablo Larrain was not the only double-dipper at this year's New York Film Festival--Kristen Stewart had, in fact, three different entries--but the two features he presented there were ones [...]

There are those who still remember that standing ovation, and they still insist it did clock in at close to 20 minutes. Daniel Noah, who directed the film and was [...]

No, the new film Little Men is not Louisa May Alcott's 1871 sequel to her 1868 Little Women. It is Ira Sachs' 2016 puberty prequel to his 2014 Love Is [...]

'Absolutely fascinating documentary' are the three words that arise with some regularity about the films of Roger Ross Williams, starting with Music by Prudence six years ago and continuing through [...]

For three decades now--from 1985's Volunteers as a Peace Corps worker to 2015's Bridge of Spies as a Cold War negotiator--Tom Hanks has been exporting his far-from-ugly American image, but [...]

Jacob Bernstein hardly hails from mild-mannered reporters--his father, Carl, toppled a President with his Watergate reporting for 'The Washington Post,' and his mother, Nora Ephron, regularly duked it out in [...]

Broadway's one and only Tony-winning Hamlet became filmdom's one and only Coriola-nus, only because he opted to make his film-directing debut with Coriolanus. Ralph Fiennes is a veritable festival of [...]

As Mel Brooks almost said once: It's good to be Harvey. The co-chairman of The Weinstein Company (and Bob's bro) wields an enormous amount of power on the contemporary movie [...]

The Brothers Hussein--Uday and Qusay -- were known respectively in U.S. military parlance as the Ace of Hearts and the Ace of Clubs until an Army task force cornered them [...]

An interesting thing happened to producer David Heyman during the dozen years he has been Pottering around so profitably in the vineyards of cinema. Some call it Life. 'I remember [...]

Chris Weitz is having one of those 'mind the baby' days, he explains at the outset of this phone interview. 'My wife went off to yoga, and I've got Sebastian,' [...]

At the very start of Son of Saul, the camera darts around nervous and uncertain, gulping in a churning sea of faces before finally lighting on one in close-up and [...]

How far is it from Downton Abbey to Down-and-Out? For Maggie Smith, the Emmy-winning matriarch of the manor, it was merely a matter of months. In the summer of'14 (2014), [...]

When Eddie Redmayne arrived at the barricades in Les Miserables for his first day of ten-minute-long takes of French-Revolutionizing, director Tom Hooper slipped him a life preserver in a brown [...]

Often you don't have to scratch an actor very hard to find the director lurking under the epidermis. Latest case-in-point is Paul Bettany, who switched camera positions the hard way--double-debuting [...]

Epics with emotional heft being a specialty of Joe Wright's, it makes sense that the 43-year-old British director would skipper the pirate galleon that brings Peter Pan sailing back to [...]

In the summer of 1972--from July 11 to August 31, between the Watergate break-in and the Munich Olympics massacre--the eyes of the world were riveted on the Laugardalsholl section of [...]

Two radically different worlds converge with remarkable ease and assurance in Learning to Drive, a lovely, humane film from Catalan director Isabel Coixet, opening on August 21 from Broad Green [...]

Behind every great man, they say, is a great woman doing the shoving, and in the specific case of British stage director Rupert Goold, it literally was his Lady Macbeth [...]

We all know about love. We just don't know how to photograph it, that's all. So it's good to report that director Benoit Jacquot is making great headway in this [...]

If one were to flash-forward a few weeks, it would not be difficult to imagine a couple of Academy Awards going to the Most Minimal Emoting in Starring Categories. In [...]

as writer-director John Waters remembered it--and filmed it--civil rights didn't march into his hometown of Baltimore in 1962 as much as it rocked-and-rolled its way in. Waters and his teen [...]

As his rep and roles have grown in size, Timothy Spall has started to loom a lot like this millennium's Charles Laughton. Latest Exhibit A: 'Mr. Turner,' which won him [...]

Can that ten-year-old African-American girl tearing through midtown Manhattan traffic on a Citi Bike be 'Little Orphan Annie,' the pupil-less but purposeful Pollyanna in the bright red dress and matching [...]

Jhe image is haunting and indelible: a pair of hands outstretched, searching unsteadily for another pair of outstretched hands, finally coming together and going into a big bear-hug embrace. Almost [...]

Alot of people--Rob Reiner, among them--were amazed last spring that The Film Society of Lincoln Center, for the first time in its 41-year history, presented its prestigious Chaplin Award to [...]

Once upon a barber's chair, John Turturro was rattling on about an idea he had for a movie. Turns out, his barber cuts Woody Allen's hair too, and passed the [...]

Although Bad Words advertises itself with a close-up of Jason Bateman's mouth forming (possibly foaming) the F-word, it turns out that Focus Features' irreverent R-rated antic is more about spelling [...]

You'd think the man who directed 2004's Finding Neverland would be the go-to guy to helm 2017's Goodbye, Christopher Robin--but no: Marc Forster opted to cover that territory as a [...]

Twenty years ago, an Austin, Texas high school run by Richard Linklater in Dazed and Confused turned out a class of future stars that included Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Cole [...]

The sound design in George Stevens' 1956 Giant--erratic as life, up close and off in the distance--caught the ear and the admiration of Warren Beatty, who went to Stevens and [...]

Eighty years separate Lee Daniels' The Butler and Frank Lloyd's Cavalcade, but they basically follow the same pattern, chronicling the journey of one man's family through the highs and lows [...]

Fruitvale, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train station in Oakland, Calif., was the last stop in the life of Oscar Grant. His 22 years extended mere minutes into 2009. [...]

'We literally only write to make each other laugh,' Cinco Paid declares sincerely about his writing partner, Ken Daurio, and there's not the slightest hint of dirt-kicking modesty about it--but [...]

Edmund Kean, the stage Hamlet, and Edmund Gwenn, the screen Santa, died 126 years apart, with the same last words on their lips: 'Dying is easy, comedy is hard.' The [...]

Now that first-graders are eligible for Best Actress-Oscar consideration, the girl most likely to follow the lead of Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild seems to be the [...]